Party with the stars at Oak Grove

Tonight, you can get a sharper view of the magic in the skies at a star party held at Oak Grove Regional Park's Nature Center in Stockton.

Thanks to the Stockton Astronomical Society, you have the chance to check out the heavens through some pretty cool telescopes and binoculars.

"When it gets good and dark, we look through the telescopes during the last hour of the evening," Doug Christensen of the society said. "These objects ... are dim and fuzzy and are best seen in large aperture telescopes on dark and clear nights."

Check out the first quarter of the moon, which happens to fall on the first day of autumn.

And there are volunteer astronomy buffs on hand to describe some far-off twinklers.

What will you see tonight?

"There's globular clusters - a nice bright one in Hercules," Christensen said. "There's a couple of planetary nebulas. One of them is the ring nebula - which we also call the ghost cheerio. There's also the dumb-bell nebula."